Morning Homer6. No no update...This is what is so weird. I don 't let my computer do auto updates.

When I had Chrome on my WinXP machine, the updates were set for "manual" only, yet auto updates went on regardless. And every time there was one, my computer slowed to a crawl or froze altogether.

That was why I uninstalled Chrome.

But I didn't have any problem uninstalling it. I just went to Control Panel and used the Add/Remove facility.
Then did a Ccleaner run and then rebooted.

I hope you get sorted soon, Winfrey

Could it have anything to do with Adobe Flash Player that Google Chrome attaches itself to?

Well, I could not just not have chrome work... so I did more reading on the forum.... saw multi... issues.. so I found an old version..22 and did the whole thing again... uninstalled... ran ccleaner.. but this time loaded the version 22. And guess what...
IT WORKS!!!!
I am saving the old version in case they update it and I have more problems....
perhaps when they do 24 I won't have an issue but for now... I am pleased...
Thanks everyone for trying to help me work this out!

Glad you got that one sorted out

Well done, Winfrey !! That's brilliant news

That's good to hear Winfrey. Let's hope someone reported the bug in the newer version to Google.

I did Homer, twice once through the forums and then through the chromme browser page it has a link for you to report a problem. But like I said earlier I saw posts on their pages that they did not offer help with other than :could be your virus or fire wall.....when I Googled the issue I found issues like mine that finally let me believe it was the new version. I kept a download of the version 22 just in case. But I am hoping when they do a new version I am ok.